Q&A: Saskatoon's Tenneya Martin on Indigenous representation and her role with the Toronto Raptors

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Q&A: Saskatoon's Tenneya Martin on Indigenous representation and her role with the Toronto Raptors

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Q: What do the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 calls to action, such as land acknowledgments, mean to you and mean to your role?I think it’s important to recognize that we can’t do anything within Indigenous spaces without Indigenous input, so the 94 calls to action are a great road map. That being said, I don’t think the 94 calls are where it ends.

Tenneya Martin pictured at a women in basketball operations forum at the 2020 NBA All-Star Game in Chicago.Q: That’s kind of your vision with the job is to create that, right? How are you trying to go about that?Tupac has a really good quote, “I’m not going to change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world. And that’s our job … to spark somebody else watching us.

 

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